Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies offers a contribution from Southern scholars to remake Youth Studies from its current state, that universalises Northern perspectives, into a truly Global Youth Studies. Contributors from across various regions of the Global South, including from the Diaspora, Indigenous and Aboriginal communities, locate and define the Global South, articulate the necessity of studying Southern lives to enrich, re-interpret, legitimate and offer symmetry to Youth Studies, and utilize and innovate Southern theory to do so. Eleven concepts are re-imagined and re-presented throughout the Handbook, such as personhood, intersectionality, violences, de- and post-coloniality, consciousness, precarity, fluid modernities, ontological insecurity, navigational capacities, collective agency and emancipation. The outcome is a series of everyday practices such as hustling, navigating, fixing, waiting, being on standby, silence, and life-writing, that demonstrate how youth living in adversity experiment with and push back against routine and conformity, and how research may support them in these endeavors and, simultaneously, redefine the relationships between knowledge, practice and politics-what the volume editors term epistepraxis.

Format: Hardback
Length: 672 pages
Publication date: 09 November 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

Ninety percent of the world's youth reside in Africa, Latin America, and the developing countries of Asia, yet the field of Youth Studies, like many others, is heavily influenced by the knowledge economy of the Global North. To address these geo-political disparities in knowledge, The Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies presents a contribution from Southern scholars aimed at reimagining Youth Studies from its current state, which universalizes Northern perspectives, into a truly Global Youth Studies. Contributors from diverse regions of the Global South, including the Diaspora, Indigenous and Aboriginal communities, locate and define the Global South, articulate the importance of studying Southern lives to enrich, re-interpret, legitimate, and offer symmetry to Youth Studies, and utilize and innovate Southern theory to achieve this.

Eleven key concepts are re-imagined and re-presented throughout the Handbook: personhood, intersectionality, violences, de- and post-coloniality, consciousness, precarity, fluid modernities, ontological insecurity, navigational capacities, collective agency, and emancipation. The outcome is a series of everyday practices such as hustling, navigating, fixing, waiting, being on standby, silence, and life-writing that demonstrate how youth living in adversity experiment with and push back against routine and conformity. These practices showcase how research can support these endeavors and, simultaneously, redefine the relationships between knowledge, practice, and politics, as termed by the volume editors as epistepraxis.

The Handbook concludes with a nascent charter for a Global Youth Studies that benefits the world, one that no longer excludes, assumes, or elides but rather includes new possibilities for representing youth, researching amongst them, and devising policies and interventions to improve their lives.

Weight: 1328g
Dimension: 182 x 257 x 46 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780190930028